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RAMALLAH, WEST BANK – JANUARY 15: 16-year-old Palestinian activist Ahed al-Tamimi, well known for her bold activism for a free Palestine, stands for a hearing at Ofer military court in Ramallah, West Bank on January 15, 2018. (Photo by Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

An Israeli court has extended the detention of a Palestinian teenager who was filmed slapping armed Israeli soldiers.

Ahed Tamimi, 16, was arrested after footage of her kicking and hitting the soldiers outside a house in Nabi Salih, in the occupied West Bank, on December 15 went viral on Facebook.

‘Ahed’s detention does not meet this criteria,’ Amnesty said. ‘In fact, nothing the teen has done can justify her continued detention.’

Magdalena Mughrabi, Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa Deputy Director, added: ‘In capturing an unarmed teenage girl’s assault on two armed soldiers wearing protective gear, the footage of this incident shows that she posed no actual threat and that her punishment is blatantly disproportionate.’

An activist holds a paper with a sign to ask the liberation of Ahed Tamimi in front of Italian Parliament on January 13 (Picture: Getty Images)

Protestors wave Palestinian flags and hold placards bearing the portrait of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reading ‘Terrorist’ during a demonstration in support of Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi on January 4 in Paris (Picture: Getty Images)

Tamimi’s family says her actions last month were part of legitimate resistance during protests in the occupied West Bank.

However, the Israeli military claimed the soldiers were in the village to stop Palestinians from throwing stones at motorists, and that protesters – including Ahed – were preventing them from doing so.

Israel’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett then told a radio station that Ahed and two other women involved in the case ‘should finish their lives in prison’ for the slapping incident.

Ahed Tamimi appeared at Ofer military court on January 15 (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)

Protesters in Rome call for Ahed’s release (Picture: Getty Images)

Demonstrators in Toulouse call for Ahed to be released from prison (Picture: Getty Images)

Ahed’s lawyer has reportedly said the teenager has faced ‘several long and aggressive interrogation sessions, sometimes during the night, and that interrogators have threatened the safety of her family’.

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Her family also says Ahed has had to endure several physically-exhausting transfers from prison to court, along with other child detainees, without access to a toilet.

Her arrest and subsequent detention has sparked protests across the world, including in Rome and Paris.